Guacamole server and client on Ubuntu

 

Install help page:

https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-and-configure-guacamole-on-ubuntu-1804/

guacamole server install

during install tomcat has to be restarted

method is:

invoke-rc.d tomcat8 restart (as root) 

A bug showing a failure to start with guacamole tomcat descriptor

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/guacamole-user/201908.mbox/%3Ce053dd44-d1e2-70bb-d363-d0c2fd0ad45e@yahoo.com%3E

 instructions

apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool m4 libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libcairo-dev libossp-uuid-dev libtelnet-dev libpango1.0-dev libfreerdp-dev libssh2-1-dev libwebp-dev libvncserver-dev libpulse-dev libvorbis-dev

apt-get install tomcat8 tomcat8-admin tomcat8-common tomcat8-user

wget https://www.apache.org/dist/guacamole/1.0.0/source/guacamole-server-1.0.0.tar.gz

tar -zxvf guacamole-server-1.0.0.tar.gz
cd guacamole-server-1.0.0
./configure --with-init-dir=/etc/init.d
make
make install
ldconfig
systemctl enable guacd
systemctl start guacd
wget https://www.apache.org/dist/guacamole/1.0.0/binary/guacamole-1.0.0.war
mkdir /etc/guacamole
cp guacamole-1.0.0.war /etc/guacamole/guacamole.war
ln -s /etc/guacamole/guacamole.war /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/
systemctl restart tomcat8
systemctl restart guacd

go to browser and enter http://ip_address_of_vm:8080/guacamole

 

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